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EIU Online: This database, provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit, provides online access to:
- Country Profiles (annual, for 200 countries)
- Country Reports (quarterly, for 200 countries)
- Country Commerce (annual, for 55 countries)
- Risk Briefings (daily, for 60 countries)
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Online encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. See the Encyclopedia of Global Industries, under Business; see Countries and Their Cultures, and Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, under Nation and World.
Kompass: Directory information for two million companies in over seventy countries and seven regions, with indexes for company products and services, containing 23 million product and service references.
MarketResearch.com Academic: Market research reports covering many different industries, countries, and market sectors.

American Chambers of Commerce Abroad: There are currently 105 American chambers of commerce in 91 countries, affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These chambers often have useful information on doing business in their country.
CIA World Factbook: These brief country profiles offer information about government, economy, GDP, CPI, labor force, unemployment rate, budget, industries, agriculture, export, import, telecommunications, debt, foreign aid for more than two hundred and fifty countries.
NationMaster.Com: Graphic rankings, lists and interactive comparisons for countries' crime, economy, education, energy, environment, geography, government, health, media, military, people, religion, sports, and transportation.
U.S. Embassies: The U.S.State Department has embassies and consulates in 140 countries, providing valuable local information for business, usually under the heading of the U.S. Commercial Service.

World development indicators.
Tables listing for each country key data about its people, environment, economy, markets, employment, poverty, etc. For data about personal computers, internet hosts, secure servers, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC59.15 .W656 2007.
Also available, in part, online at http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html.
The IMD world competitiveness yearbook.
Ranking information in many competitiveness categories for 46 major countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF1414 .W67 2007.
International financial statistics yearbook.
Population, GDP, producer, wholesale and consumer prices, wages, labor force, unemployment, volume and value of imports and exports, and many other categories. Statistics cover each year of the past 30 years, where data is available.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG3881 .I6263 2007.
(Also available online)
Directory of American firms operating in foreign countries.
How do you find what U.S. companies are doing business outside the U.S.? This four-volume annual work provides information on over 4,000 U.S. firms with 63,000 branches in 191 countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4538 .A1 D5 2007.
Global corruption report.
See Part two for country corruption.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: JF1081 .G56 2001, 2003-2006.
(Also available online)

ProQuest Databases: Use this database of over 100 million articles, in over 10,000 publications, to find up-to-date information about doing business in any country.

22 March 2007; updated 10 April 2008. Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu